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Quartz (Var. Amethyst)

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Serra do Mar, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Like the quartz crystal behind you, these amethyst crystals have size sides that come to a point. Amethyst is the purple variety of quartz. Once part of a 32,000-kg (70,000-lb) geode, this specimen comes from Brazil's famous amethyst mines.

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Uploaded on January 15, 2010
Taken on December 5, 2009